May 7, 2019THE DREAMER AND THE STRATEGIST: THE LAST GO-BETWEENS INTERVIEW BRINGS WIND BACK WEDNESDAY TO BRISBANIn this week, 13 years ago, Grant McLennan died. Suddenly, shockingly. It brought an end to a band he’d formed with Robert Forster in...
Feb 28, 2019HIS WAY AND THE HIGHWAY: THE ROBERT FORSTER INTERVIEWPicture by Bleddyn Butcher A couple of late middle-age blokes are bantering about obsolescence, the realisation when the return calls...
Sep 18, 2017TELLING THE GO-BETWEENS STORY part 2Go Betweens - five piece credit Peter Anderson The new documentary about The Go-Betweens, by Kriv Stenders, Right Here, opens in a week....
Sep 11, 2017TELLING THE GO-BETWEENS STORY part 1Go-Betweens by Bleddyn Butcher As we near the release of Right Here, a documentary tracing the many lives and many versions of the much...
Feb 20, 2015A GO-BETWEENS BOX SET. G STANDS FOR GORGEOUSThe G Stands For Go-Betweens box set is a cracker. I wrote a review of it which for, well, reasons, had to share space with a far less...
Feb 20, 201550 YEARS. 50 SONGS. (WELL, ACTUALLY 51 BUT LET’S NOT QUIBBLE.) ONE SLICE OF A LIFE – PART 1As I said in an earlier post, I had to pick 50 songs from 50 years to mark a landmark that we don’t need to go over again here thank you...
Feb 2, 2015CALLOW, COCKY AND SO VERY GO-BETWEENS: ROBERT FORSTER ON HOW BRISBANE – AND PARIS, NEW YORK AND LONDThere was, as ever when talking to Robert Forster, a lot to say when we spoke about the Go-Betweens and the release of a substantial box...